Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Autor/a de Moby Dick
Sobre l'autor
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young mostra'n més Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891
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Obres de Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the… (1849) 566 exemplars
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd (1984) 535 exemplars
Moby-Dick (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) 276 exemplars
Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick (graphic adaptation by Bill Sienkiewicz) (1990) — Original Author — 110 exemplars
Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors… (2019) 90 exemplars
Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd and Other Writings (Library of America College Editions) (2000) 84 exemplars
Selected writings of Herman Melville: complete short stories, Typee [and] Billy Budd, foretopman (1952) 79 exemplars
Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Moby-Dick, White-Jacket, Israel Potter & Redburn (1928) 40 exemplars
Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (1987) 26 exemplars
Shorter Novels of Herman Melville, Benitoo Cereno, Bertley the Scrivener, The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, Billy… (1942) 18 exemplars
Grolier Classics: Moby Dick/Life of Samuel Johnson/The Social Contract, The Odyssey (1955) 16 exemplars
The works of Herman Melville. v. 13. Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver. 16 exemplars
Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : An Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic (2002) 13 exemplars
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville, Vol. 6) (1988) 13 exemplars
Tre scene da Moby Dick tradotte e commentate da Alessandro Baricco. testo inglese a fronte (2009) 11 exemplars
Moby-Dick, or, the whale ; and, An extract from Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the… 10 exemplars
In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (2011) 10 exemplars
Moby-Dick. An authoritative text, before Moby-Dick: international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville,… 10 exemplars
The Condensed Moby Dick (Herman Melville's Classic Abridged for the Modern Reader) (2012) 9 exemplars
Moby Dick (Short Classics) 8 exemplars
Norfolk Isle & the Chola widow 7 exemplars
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings: The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 13 (2017) 6 exemplars
Reading & Training : Herman Melville : Moby Dick [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 5 exemplars
The letters of Herman Melville 5 exemplars
The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of… (2011) 4 exemplars
Herman Melville's MOBY DICK Leather Bound Book - Classic Books - Collectible Books #6520-017 (1977) 3 exemplars
Herman Melville: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 3 exemplars
Moby Dick. Erster Teil. Vollständige Ausgabe mit einem Nachwort von Rudolf Sühnel (1977) 3 exemplars
Herman Melville (World's Greatest Short Stories) 3 exemplars
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems 3 exemplars
"Moby Dick", der weiße Wal, nach Herman Melville, übersetzt und für die Jugend bearbeitet von Thomas Trent 3 exemplars
De beste verhalen van Herman Melville 3 exemplars
Die Reisetagebücher: Reise von New York nach London 1849 / Reise ins Heilige Land 1856/57 / Reise an Bord des… (2001) 3 exemplars
Putnam's monthly 3 exemplars
Herman Melville: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1938) 3 exemplars
Moby Dick 2 exemplars
Short Fiction 2 exemplars
Benito Cereno: Il tartaro delle vergini: Il paradiso degli scapoli: Bartleby lo scrivano 2 exemplars
The Tartarus of Maids (Short Story) 2 exemplars
Melville on Melville 2 exemplars
Ficção curta completa 2 exemplars
Poemas - Herman Melville (Portuguese Edition) 2 exemplars
The Indispensable Melville 2 exemplars
El jugador 2 exemplars
MOBY DICK Illustrated 2 exemplars
Die große Kunst, die Wahrheit zu sagen. Von Walen, Dichtern und anderen Herrlichkeiten (2005) 2 exemplars
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville (2005-12-19) (1866) 2 exemplars
THE ORIGINALS: MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE 2 exemplars
El vendedor de pararrayos 2 exemplars
Obras completas, 3 vols. 2 exemplars
Herman Melville: Selected Stories (Unabridged) 2 exemplars
Moby Dick 2 exemplars
The Town Ho´s Story (1851) 2 exemplars
O meu primeiro Moby Dick 2 exemplars
A Ilíada e a Guerra de Tróia 2 exemplars
Best of Melville: Moby-Dick D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick Typee The Piazza Tales (The Piazza Bartleby Benito… (2013) 2 exemplars
Melville - Le cento pagine più belle 2 exemplars
De betoverde eilanden / Bartleby 2 exemplars
Moby Dick and Other Works (Halcyon Classics) 2 exemplars
Modydick 2 exemplars
La mesa de madera de manzano / El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas (2013) 2 exemplars
Art 1 exemplars
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville: Benito Cereno - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Bartleby the Scrivener - The Encantadas (1928) 1 exemplars
Las estatuas de Roma 2010 1 exemplars
MOBY DICK 2 1 exemplars
MOBY DICK 1 1 exemplars
Moby Dick Histórias em quadrinhos 1 exemplars
Billy Budd and Other Tales 1 exemplars
Herman Melville. Cocorico !: et autres contes 1 exemplars
Billy Budd read by Christopher Timothy 1 exemplars
Мобі Дік (Ukrainian Edition) 1 exemplars
The Great Writers (Herman Melville) moby-Dick 1 exemplars
Le cento pagine più belle di Melville 1 exemplars
Tulák po ostrovech 1 exemplars
“The Martyr” 1 exemplars
Billy Budd & Benito Cereno, (Leather-bound Collector's edition, paintings by Robert Shore), hc, 2004 1 exemplars
The complete stories 1 exemplars
Selected poems of Herman Melville 1 exemplars
אוסף סיפורי ים ונהר אחד — Autor — 1 exemplars
First Student's Classics: Moby-Dick 1 exemplars
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Paraiso de canibais 1 exemplars
Rare Heritage Press ~ Billy Budd/Benito Cereno ~ Herman Melville ~ Slipcase/Notes (1777) 1 exemplars
Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse 1 exemplars
Μόμπι Ντικ - Classics Illustrated 1 exemplars
Moby Dick 35/22N 1 exemplars
Covek od poverenja 1 exemplars
Moby Dick'1 1 exemplars
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplars
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The New and Definitive Text, Edited from an Analysis and Independent… (1963) 1 exemplars
Moby-Dick of The Whale 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - Die Jagd nach dem weissen Walfisch 1 exemplars
Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 1 1 exemplars
Povesti i rasskazy ; Stikhotvorenia 1 exemplars
MOBY DICK.TRADUCTION DE L'AMERICAIN PAR HENRIETTE GUEX-ROLLE.CHRONOLOGIE ET PREFACE PAR ROBERT SILHOL. (1970) 1 exemplars
PACHUCHE BET 1 exemplars
Redburn-Classic Original Edition(Annotated) 1 exemplars
Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 2 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - Great Illustrated Classics 1 exemplars
Moby Dick (two chapters) 1 exemplars
The 'Gees 1 exemplars
Jimmy Rose 1 exemplars
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs 1 exemplars
Annales 1 exemplars
Amazing illustrated classics: Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Moby Dick by Herman Melville Paperback Book 1 exemplars
Moby Dick & other stories 1 exemplars
Billy Budd #T510 1 exemplars
Maravilhas da Literatura - Vol.5 - Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (2016) 1 exemplars
Moby Dick Vol.2 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural - 2 Volumes 1 exemplars
MELVILLE Bartleby el escribiente 1 exemplars
Oszust 1 exemplars
Benito Centeno 1 exemplars
TYPPE 1 exemplars
Čovek od poverenja 1 exemplars
Os dramas do mar. Benito Cereno. Billy Budd 1 exemplars
ම්ලේච්ඡයන් අතර සිවු මසක් 1 exemplars
මෝබිඩික් : ධවල තල්මසාගේ කතාන්තරය 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - Adaptación de Carolina Aros 1 exemplars
Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Ich und mein Kamin eine Erzählung 1 exemplars
Ca Voi Trang 1 exemplars
OS IMORTAIS DA LITERATURA UNIVERSAL - MOBYDICK 1 exemplars
Moby Dick and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 exemplars
Herman Mellville's Billy Budd: Foretopman 1 exemplars
The Plague Ship. (short story) 1 exemplars
Relatos de Hawthorne y Melville 1 exemplars
Moby Dick "Moby Dick" 1 exemplars
Moby Dick Longmans' Simplified English Series 1 exemplars
Ενκαντάδας-Μπάρτελμπυ-Μπίλλυ Μπάντ 1 exemplars
The World's Great Classics: Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Cetologia 1 exemplars
Moby Dick (eNewton Classici) 1 exemplars
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 2 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural 1 exemplars
Benito Cereno et autres contes de la Véranda 1 exemplars
The Originals Moby-Dick, or The Whale 1 exemplars
Izrael Potter 1 exemplars
Moby Dick & Billy Budd (Longmeadow Press) 1 exemplars
Profili di donne 1 exemplars
The Great Classics for Children: Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Modern Masquerade 1 exemplars
Snowflakes (Annotated) 1 exemplars
Le Campanile 1 exemplars
Un berceau de verdure chez les Arsacides 1 exemplars
Short novels 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - Illustrierte Klassiker, Nr. 37 1 exemplars
Eight Great American Short Novels 1 exemplars
Bartleby (film) 1 exemplars
Poesie (testo inglese a fronte) 1 exemplars
Vortoppmann Billy Budd und Erzählungen 1 exemplars
Moby Dick Big Read (Audiobook) 1 exemplars
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplars
Hooked on Phonics: Moby Dick 1 exemplars
The Birth-Mark (Annotated) 1 exemplars
Complete Shorter Fiction, The / Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Works 16 vols 1 exemplars
Shorter Novels 1 exemplars
Complete Stories 1 exemplars
Four novels 1 exemplars
Four Great Novels by Herman Melville, (Complete and Unabridged). Including Moby Dick, Typee, a Romance of the South… (2013) 1 exemplars
La Charge de la Baleine Blanche 1 exemplars
El escribiente y otros relatos 1 exemplars
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. The Fiddler. Jimmy Rose / Τρεις απόκληροι :… (2010) 1 exemplars
Moby Dick [Audible] 1 exemplars
mpilly mpant kai alles istories 1 exemplars
The Man-of-War Hawk [poem] 1 exemplars
Bartleby le Scribe - L'île de Noroflk et la Veuve Chola - Le Marchand de Paratonnerres - Benito Cereno 1 exemplars
Billy Budd, and other prose pieces; (The works of Herman Melville. Standard edition. vol. XIII) 1 exemplars
Herman Melville, complete and unabridged 1 exemplars
Erzählungen. 1 exemplars
The Sea: Excerpts from Herman Melville. 1 exemplars
Cocorico et autres contres 1 exemplars
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 1 exemplars
Contos 1 exemplars
Works of Herman Melville. Moby Dick, Omoo, Billy Budd, Sailor, The Piazza Tales & more (Mobi Collected Works) (2007) 1 exemplars
Moby Dick Libro terzo 1 exemplars
Poesie scelte (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplars
Herman Melville: The Complete Shorter Fiction 1 exemplars
Moby Dick, etc. [Abridged.] 1 exemplars
Benito Cereno et autres nouvelles de la véranda 1 exemplars
"Shiloh" 1 exemplars
I due templi (in Le Encantadas e altri racconti) 1 exemplars
La torre campanaria (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplars
10 Books by Melville 1 exemplars
Il venditore di parafulmini (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplars
Moby Dick (Adventure) - Intermediate 1 exemplars
Moby Dick [Adapté - Jacques Marcireau] 1 exemplars
Authentic Anecdotes of Old Zack 1 exemplars
Billy Bud and Six Other Tales 1 exemplars
Moby Dick-Junior Classics 1 exemplars
MOBY DICK, RAGAZZINI 1 exemplars
Illustrated Classics Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Abenteuer in der Südsee: Taipi Omoo: Ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben (German Edition) (2014) 1 exemplars
Billy Budd Sailer and The Piazza Tales 1 exemplars
Moby Dick Extracts (For The Bodleian Library) 1 exemplars
A Thought on Book-Binding 1 exemplars
Graphic Classic #6: Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Maldive Shark 1 exemplars
Illustrierte Klassiker : Die spannendsten Geschichten der Weltliteratur : Nr. 37 : Moby Dick 1 exemplars
Fives Tales 1 exemplars
Billy Budd. Opowieść wtajemniczonego 1 exemplars
Cojocelul alb 1 exemplars
Billy Budd & Piazza Tales - Herman Melville - The Franklin Library - Alan Price Drawings - Editors Notes (1982) 1 exemplars
Redburn, Israel Potter und sämtliche Erzählungen, Nachwort, Erläuterungen und aus dem Amerikanischen von… (1967) 1 exemplars
Moby Dick - vol. 26 1 exemplars
Má první plavba 1 exemplars
Las Islas Encantadas y bartleby 1 exemplars
Weranda i inne równie prawdziwe opowieści 1 exemplars
Moby Dick, EDCON abridged 1 exemplars
El cuento norteamericano del siglo XIX 1 exemplars
Obras 1 exemplars
Billy in the darbies: A facsimile from the manuscript of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor : printed as a… (1991) 1 exemplars
Masa din lemn de mar 1 exemplars
Bartleby. Erzählungen. Aus dem Englischen von Marianne Graefe u.a. Mit einem Nachwort von Karl-Heinz… (1981) 1 exemplars
Reisefresken dreier Brüder: Dichter, Maler, Müssiggänger: Tagebuch einer Reise nach Europa und in die… (1991) 1 exemplars
Moby Dick . Volumen I 1 exemplars
Uncollected Poems 1 exemplars
Redburn ou sa premiere croisiere 1 exemplars
Moby Dick eller Den vita valen 2 1 exemplars
An Imposition of Whales 1 exemplars
Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville 1 exemplars
Fragments from a Writing Desk 1 exemplars
Moby Dick . Volumen II 1 exemplars
El embaucador 1 exemplars
EL TEMERARIO Y OTROS POEMAS [Próxima aparición] 1 exemplars
Complete Works of Herman Melville "American Novelist, Short Story Writer and Poet from the Renaissance Period"! 19… (2016) 1 exemplars
Moby-Dick, etc 1 exemplars
Melville. opere scelte 1 exemplars
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Melville, Herman
- Nom oficial
- Melville, Herman
- Altres noms
- Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
- Data de naixement
- 1819-08-01
- Data de defunció
- 1891-09-28
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County, New York, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cardiovascular disease
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (mostra-les totes 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838) - Professions
- bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (mostra-les totes 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840) - Relacions
- Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend) - Biografia breu
- Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.
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- Membres
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- Popularitat
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- Preferit
- 254
personatges estan ben descrits, moments interessants quan ens explica la relació entre el narrador Ismael i el company Queequeck. L'obsessió del capità Ahab per perseguir la balena és coneguda de tothom, però curiosament ocupa un espai ben reduït dins les sis-centes planes de la novel.la i Moby Dick no apareix fins la plana 575. El final és com calia esperar, de tota la tripulació només en resta un supervivent, ell serà qui ens expliqui com una idea obssessiva pot acabar amb un desastre total.… (més)